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Yesterday the Harvard baseball team lost to UMass by 11 runs, but it really wasn't that close. When Nate Murphy sent an Andrew Duffell pitch 400 feet over the right field fence in Fenway to make the game 8-0, it was clear to all that extensive garbage time was upon...
They were average folks who wanted their children to grow up having sat in the front row of Fenway Park, having chased down a wayward foul ball to the cheers of the other fans in the park, having watched baseball on a Thursday afternoon. The only thing missing was a peanut guy who could hurl a bag of nuts across four rows of people with pinpoint accuracy...
...both teams lined up along the dugout or at their positions, put their hats over their chests, took a gallant "baseball player" stance, and stared at the flag. Some mouthed the words to themselves, some made equipment "adjustments" and some stared at the one red seat in the Fenway bleachers instead of at the flag...
...Fenway Park is scheduled to be torn down in a few years. As any Sox fan knows, its history is not one of piling up in glee on the pitcher's mound and having champagne baths in the locker room. It is one of Bill Buckner letting a routine grounder scoot through his legs...
...Wolfe's attack is evidence that our proud traditions are changing. No longer are leaders like Joe Moakley and Ted Kennedy able to keep uncooperative voices silent. For many its a sad fact--almost as if Wolfe burned down Fenway Park and slapped back up some pre-fab cousin of the Georgia Dome. A new, much less distinctive way of life, is taking over the city of Boston...